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In this episode I speak with Brian Panarello of Dark Wolf about the past, present and future of cybersecurity. The only writing app you'll need

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In this episode, I speak with Rita Barbosa of Guardian Labs, which is building a Europe-based, AI-powered scam-protection app that pulls in up-to-date scam data to help prevent vulnerable phone users from being scammed. https://guardianlabs.eu/

I compare two phone-attachable AI recording/transcription devices, the Plaud Note and the EurekaMind from NoteGPT. I unbox the devices and look at the hardware similarities and differences, notes similarities, and highlights hardware differences including Plaud’s MagSafe case and custom charger versus EurekaMind’s USB‑C charging, lighter weight, an LCD battery indicator.

Final episode of IFA coverage, a miscellany… Ghost Pad is a large gaming-style mousepad that also acts as a touch-sensitive, web-programmable input device with 16 buttons, modular layouts, up to 10 modes, keyboard shortcuts, MIDI control, and optional wireless use, with a crowdfunding campaign planned in about a month.